A vvay to get vvealth, containing six principall vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or houswife, may lawfully imploy themselves. As 1. The natures, ordering, curing[,] breeding, choice, use, and feeding of all sorts of cattel, and fowl, fit for the service of man: as also the riding and dieting of horses, either for war or pleasure. 2. The knowledge, use, and laudable practice of all the recreations meet for a gentleman. 3. The office of a hous-wife, in physick, chyrurgery, extraction of oyles, banquets, cookery, ordering of feasts, preserving of wine, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hemp, flax, dying, use of dayries, malting, brewing, baking; and the profit of oats. 4 The enrichment of the weald in Kent. 5 The husbanding and enriching of all sorts of barren grounds, making them equal with the most fruitfull: with the preservation of swine. And a computation of men and cattles labours, &c. 6 The making of orchards, planting and graffing,

All titles

• A vvay to get vvealth, containing six principall vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or houswife, may lawfully imploy themselves. As 1. The natures, ordering, curing[,] breeding, choice, use, and feeding of all sorts of cattel, and fowl, fit for the service of man: as also the riding and dieting of horses, either for war or pleasure. 2. The knowledge, use, and laudable practice of all the recreations meet for a gentleman. 3. The office of a hous-wife, in physick, chyrurgery, extraction of oyles, banquets, cookery, ordering of feasts, preserving of wine, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hemp, flax, dying, use of dayries, malting, brewing, baking; and the profit of oats. 4 The enrichment of the weald in Kent. 5 The husbanding and enriching of all sorts of barren grounds, making them equal with the most fruitfull: with the preservation of swine. And a computation of men and cattles labours, &c. 6 The making of orchards, planting and graffing,
• Way to get wealth
• Cheap and good husbandry.

People / Organizations

• Gervase Markham (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by William Wilson, for George Sawbridge, at the Bible on Ludgate-hill, neer Fleet-bridge, 1660 [i.e. 1664?]

Publication year

1664-1664

ESTC No.

R41738

Grub Street ID

123288

Description

[12], 146, [10]+ p. : ill. 4⁰

Note

"Cheap and good husbandry, ..." has separate title page, dated 1664; register is continuous.

Uncontrolled note

Verify pagination. Copy catalogued, "Cheap and good husbandry" only